Medical photothermal moxibustion Instrument

ABSTRACT

A medical photothermal moxibustion instrument relates to a medical instrument. An instrument working power source and a general assembly plate of a moxibustion signal adjusting system are fixed in a shell; a set key and a medical photothermal moxibustion head socket are installed on a panel of the shell; and a plug is connected with a moxibustion head substrate via a signal connecting conductor. An S-shaped medicine line slot is arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate, and the medicine line slot intersects with a wire connecting two light emitting diodes on the same diameter. Then the connected plug is inserted into a moxibustion head socket and a medicine line is squeezed into the medicine line slot. The difficulty that moxibustion medicine can not be placed in a V-shaped shallow pit of the moxibustion head and is easy to drop is effectively solved by changing the line burying way by means of squeezing the medicine line into the S-shaped or reversed S-shaped bent medicine line slot more tightly. Therefore, the simultaneous moxibustion of medicine, light and heat can be carried out conveniently, and the medical photothermal moxibustion instrument is beneficial for popularizing the modern moxibustion therapy technology and improving the therapeutic effect of the modern moxibustion therapy.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to a medical instrument, and in particular, to a traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion apparatus.

BACKGROUND OF THE RELATED ART

A moxibustion therapy is an important invention of the Chinese nation. The traditional moxibustion therapy, which can treat and prevent diseases by using burning moxa to scald on acupuncture points, has the advantages of simple method, no side-effects, and significant effect. In order to inherit and develop the country's medical technology and promote modernization of the traditional acupuncture therapy and moxibustion therapy, someone has improved the moxibustion therapy technically by means of utilizing modern electroheat control technology to replace and regulate the moxibustion therapy, and also realizing such functions as energy supplement and release, and the like, on the control technology. These technical measures have certain effects on the development of the traditional acupuncture therapy and moxibustion therapy technology; however, disadvantages of the measures are that: photothermal effect of the burning moxa are mainly taken into consideration when utilizing the electroheat technology to replace the burning moxa for moxibustion, which inject thermal and light energies on the acupuncture points. During the development of thousands' years, it has been concluded in the traditional moxibustion therapy that the moxibustion therapy of a plurality of different diseases such as carbuncle, and the like, must be assisted with different corresponding medicines (which is called as medicine moxibustion); on this basis, better treatment effects can be achieved by scientifically utilizing them to carry out moxibustion treatment. There is still a lack of corresponding coping measures for how to utilize different wave lengths during the technical improvement on the modern moxibustion therapy; although there is a technology of setting a shallow pit for burying a medicine cake (tablet) on the surface of a moxibustion head and putting the medicine cake into a shallow pit for moxibustion therapy on the aspect of utilizing medicine moxibustion, to put the medicine cake on the working face of the head will certainly increase resistances and barriers on releasing and transferring moxibustion energies as the medicine cake has a certain area and thickness, so as to influence the moxibustion treatment effects. What is worse, the medicine cake can not be placed in a shallow pit set on the surface of the moxibustion head and is easy to drop as the pit is very shallow, thus causing trouble and difficulty during operation; therefore, the ‘medicine moxibustion’ in the modern moxibustion treatment can not be used and is under a state of being not adopted all the time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention aims at inheriting essence of the traditional moxibustion treatment technology completely to solve the defects of the foregoing related art, and can effectively prevent the medicine tablet from dropping from the shallow pit of the moxibustion head via firmly placing the moxibustion medicine; meanwhile, the invention is equipped with a plurality of photothermal and medicine moxibustion structural forms according to the principle that different viscera diseases have different sensitivities on the heat energy, light and medicine for moxibustion, so as to meet the demands of photothermal and medicine moxibustion, light and medicine moxibustion as well as thermal and medicine moxibustion therapy technologies; in this way, a doctor can conveniently select a plurality of medicine moxibustion technologies, and the medicine moxibustion technology of the traditional moxibustion method can be better inherited and improved.

A technical scheme adopted by the invention to solve technical problems thereof is as follows: a shell, the inside of which is fixed with an instrument working power source, and a control system general assembly plate of a thermal moxibustion signal and light moxibustion signal electronic adjusting system, is designed; a power source switch, a set key and a plurality of moxibustion head sockets are installed on a panel of the shell; a plug is connected with a moxibustion head of a moxibustion head substrate via a photothermal moxibustion signal connecting conductor; wherein the moxibustion head is plastically packaged, and a heating element and a light emitting diode are installed inside the moxibustion head; the connected plug is inserted into the moxibustion head socket; a medicine line slot and two light emitting diodes arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; wherein the medicine line slot intersects with a wire connecting the two light emitting diodes. The medicine line is squeezed into the medicine line slot and the moxibustion head is placed into a therapy acupuncture point on the surface of a body; when the control system sends out a heat moxibustion therapy signal, medicine properties in the medicine line will be slowly evaporated to the acupuncture point on the surface of the body with the increasing of temperature, capillaries of skins at the acupuncture point will be further expanded with the slow increasing of temperature, and then the medicine properties thereof can be permeated into the skins more smoothly with the support of heat, and can synergistically affect with the thermal energy and light energy in moxibustion treatment to trigger the points and stimulate meridians and collaterals so as to achieve an ideal moxibustion treatment effect.

In order to meet the demands of selecting a plurality of photothermal and medicine moxibustion treatment technologies such as photothermal and medicine moxibustion, light and medicine moxibustion as well as thermal and medicine moxibustion, the working face of the foregoing moxibustion head substrate has three structures; wherein a structure of the working face of a photothermal and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode and a medicine line slot are arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and a heating element is installed in the moxibustion head substrate; a structure of the working face of a light and medicine substrate is that two light emitting diodes and a medicine line slot are installed on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate, and a heating element is not installed inside the moxibustion head substrate; and a structure of the working face of a thermal and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode is not installed on the original round light emitting diode installation hole position on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and only two colored circle impresses higher than the working face of the moxibustion head substrate by no more than 5 mm and the medicine line slot are arranged; moreover, a resistance element is arranged in the moxibustion head substrate.

Four periphery appearances of the working face of the foregoing moxibustion head substrate can be round, ellipse and polygon; wherein the out-of-roundness of the working face of a round moxibustion head substrate is less than two fifths of a nominal diameter; and the radius difference of the working face of an ellipse moxibustion head substrate at two ends is less than two thirds of the radius at the larger end.

The medicine line slot on the same diameter of the working face of the foregoing round moxibustion head substrate can be an S-shaped or reversed S-shaped semi-circular arc with a radius of curvature between one fifth and three fourths of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the circle center of the medicine line slot is respectively overlapped with installation centers of the two light emitting diodes, and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.

The central point of the working face of the foregoing round moxibustion head substrate, the central point of the medicine line slot and the central point of the wire connecting the two light emitting diodes are overlapped; and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.

The light emitting diodes on the working face of the foregoing round moxibustion head substrate are symmetrically distributed and installed on the same diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the distance between the two light emitting diodes is more than one fourth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; and the locating error of installation points of the two light emitting diodes is less than one fifth of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.

Depth of the medicine line slot on the working face of the foregoing round moxibustion head substrate is between 0 and 5.0 mm and width of the medicine line slot on the working face of the foregoing round moxibustion head substrate is between 0.1 and 5.0 mm; a paint coating is coated at the bottom of the slot; and two coatings of different colors are coated on the working faces at the two sides of the medicine line slot.

In order to meet the demands of using different wave lengths colored in red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple to carry out effective moxibustion therapy on different diseases and different viscera, semiconductor light emitting diodes and semiconductor laser diodes with single color of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple can be selected as the foregoing light emitting diodes; moreover, color-adjustable semiconductor light emitting diodes with multiple colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple can be selected; wherein the color can be adjusted by a working current.

A noodle-shaped 1-5 mm medicine line prepared and twisted by adding a blender into a special heavy medicine liquid for moxibustion treatment can be adopted as the foregoing medicine line squeezed in the medicine line slot; or, a medicine line formed by dipping a cotton line with a diameter of 1-5 mm into the special heavy medicine liquid for moxibustion treatment can be adopted as the medicine line.

Beneficial Effects of the Invention

1. As it is both very convenient to bury the medicine line and clear the medicine line, which is very easy for a doctor to accept, the invention is beneficial for popularizing for promoting and popularizing the medicine, photothermal moxibustion treatment technology as well as improving the treatment effect of the modern moxibustion therapy.

2. As there are larger friction forces at the two sides inside the medicine line slot, and the medicine line slot has certain curve, the medicine line after being squeezed in the medicine line slot more tightly is hard to drop, a problem of difficulty placing the medicine cake is solved; meanwhile, influences on the moxibustion treatment effects due to the barriers on thermal and light energy transfer caused by the area and thickness of the medicine cake are overcome.

3. Section requirements of different diseases on different medicine moxibustion therapies are met during the moxibustion treatment of the doctor, which further develops the traditional moxibustion therapy.

BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention is further described below by drawings and embodiments.

FIG. 1 is an arrangement plan of an instrument control panel of embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a principal relation schema of an instrument of the embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the working face of a medicine, photothermal moxibustion head substrate of the embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional drawing of the medicine, photothermal moxibustion head substrate of the embodiments of the invention.

In the drawings: 1-color-adjustable LED (light emitting diode), 2-electric heating element, 3-working face of moxibustion head substrate, 4-panel of shell, 5-medicine, light and heat moxibustion signal electronic adjusting system, 6-instrument working power source, 7-power source switch, 8-moxibustion head socket, 9-moxibustion head, 10-set key, 11-color-adjustable LED (light emitting diode) installation hole, 12-medicine line slot, 13-general assembly plate, 14-shell, 15-connecting conductor, and 16-moxibustion head substrate.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE EMBODIMENTS

In the embodiments as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, a shell (14), the inside of which is fixed with an instrument working power source (6), and a control system general assembly plate (13) of a heat moxibustion signal and light moxibustion signal electronic adjusting system (5), is designed; a power source switch (7), a set key (10) and a plurality of moxibustion head sockets (8) are installed on a panel (4) of the shell; a plug is connected with a moxibustion head (9) via a photothermal moxibustion signal connecting conductor (15); wherein the moxibustion head is plastically packaged, a medicine line slot (12) color-adjustable LED (1) with a diameter of 3 mm installed in a color-adjustable LED installation hole (11) are arranged on the working face (3) of a moxibustion head substrate, and a heating element (2) with a resistance value of 60 Ohms is installed in the moxibustion head substrate (16); afterwards, the connected plug is inserted into the moxibustion head socket (8), and a medicine line is sequenced in the medicine line slot (12).

The out-of-roundness of the working face (3) of the round moxibustion head substrate is less than 1.2 mm.

The center of the medicine line slot (12) bending in an S shape arranged on the working face (3) of the moxibustion head interacts with the center of the wire connecting the two LEDs (1) with a diameter of 3 mm the color of which can be adjusted among red, orange and yellow by changing a working current.

The two circle centers of two semi-circular arcs with a radius of 8 mm at the two ends of the medicine line slot (12) are respectively overlapped with the installation centers of the two color-adjustable LEDs (1), and the overlapping error thereof is less than 1 mm.

The two color-adjustable LEDs (1) are symmetrically installed on the same diameter of the working face (3) of the moxibustion head substrate with a diameter of 32 mm; and the locating error of installation points of the two color-adjustable LEDs (1) is less than 1 mm.

The central point of the wire connecting the circle centers of the two semi-circular arcs at the two ends of the medicine line slot (12), the central point of the wire connecting the two color-adjustable LEDs (1), and the central point of the working face (3) of the moxibustion head substrate are overlapped; and the overlapping error thereof is less than 1.5 mm.

The depth of the medicine line slot (12) is 1.8 mm and the width thereof is 2 mm; a yellow paint coating is coated at the bottom of the slot; and two environmental-friendly coatings which are respectively black and white are coated on the working faces at the two sides of the medicine line slot.

The structure of the working face of the light and medicine moxibustion head substrate equipped which only lights but does not heat is as follows: two color-adjustable LEDs (1) and the medicine line slot (12) are arranged on the working face (3) of the moxibustion head substrate; and the heating element (2) is not installed in the moxibustion head substrate.

The structure of the working face of the heat and medicine moxibustion head substrate equipped which only heats but does not light is as follows: the light emitting diode is not installed on the original round light emitting diode installation hole position on the working face (3) of the moxibustion head substrate and only two circle impresses in red and yellow with a diameter of 3 mm higher than the working face of the moxibustion head substrate by 1.5 mm and the medicine line slot (12) are arranged; moreover, the heating element (2) with a resistance of 60 Ohms is arranged in the moxibustion head substrate.

The medicine line squeezed in the medicine line slot (12) is a noodle-shaped medicine line prepared and twisted by adding fine calcium carbonate powder with a fineness of 300 meshes into a special heavy medicine liquid for moxibustion treatment.

When in use, the instrument power source is inserted and then the power source switch (7) is switched on; a moxibustion treatment signal is set by the set key (10) and color and wavelength (such as red) needed by a disease (such as heart disease) to be treated is modulated; afterwards, a medical photothermal moxibustion head (9) filled with the medicine line is bound on an acupuncture point (such as Neiguan point) needing moxibustion; thus, medical photothermal moxibustion treatment on the heart disease can be carried out.

After finishing the treatment, the power source is cut off and the medical photothermal moxibustion head (9) is taken off to remove the medicine line in the medicine line slot (12). 

What is claimed is:
 1. A medical photothermal moxibustion instrument, characterized in that an instrument working power source, and a control system general assembly plate of a heat moxibustion thermal signal and light moxibustion signal electronic adjusting system are fixed in a shell; a power source switch, a set key and a plurality of moxibustion head sockets are installed on a panel of the shell; and a plug is connected with a moxibustion head of a moxibustion head substrate via a photothermal moxibustion signal connecting conductor; wherein the moxibustion head is plastically packaged, and a heating element or/and light emitting diode is installed inside the moxibustion head; the connected plug is inserted into the moxibustion head socket, and a medicine line is squeezed in a medicine line slot; wherein the medicine line slot is arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and intersects with a wire connecting two light emitting diodes.
 2. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that four periphery appearances of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate are round, ellipse and polygon; wherein the out-of-roundness of the working face of a round moxibustion head substrate is less than two fifths of a nominal diameter; and the radius difference of the working face of an ellipse moxibustion head substrate at two ends is less than two thirds of the radius at the larger end.
 3. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the medicine line slot on the same diameter of the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate is an S-shaped or reversed S-shaped semi-circular arc with a radius of curvature between one fifth and three fourths of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the circle center of the medicine line slot is respectively overlapped with installation centers of the two light emitting diodes, and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 4. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the central point of the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate, the central point of the medicine line slot and the central point of the wire connecting the two light emitting diodes are overlapped; and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 5. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the light emitting tubes on the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate are symmetrically distributed and installed on the same diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the distance between the two light emitting diodes is more than one fourth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; and the locating error of installation points of the two light emitting tubes is less than one fifth of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 6. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the working face of the moxibustion head substrate is one of three following structures; wherein a structure of the working face of a heat, light and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode and a medicine line slot are arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and a heating element is installed in the moxibustion head substrate; a structure of the working face of a light and medicine substrate is that two light emitting diodes and a medicine line slot are installed on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate, and a heating element is not installed inside the moxibustion head substrate; and a structure of the working face of a heat and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode is not installed on the original round light emitting diode installation hole position on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and only two colored circle impresses higher than the working face of the moxibustion head substrate by no more than 5 mm and the medicine line slot are arranged; moreover, a heating element is arranged in the moxibustion head substrate.
 7. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the depth of the medicine line slot on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate is between 0 and 5.0 mm and the width of the medicine line slot on the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate is between 0.1 and 5.0 mm; a paint coating is coated at the bottom of the slot; and two coatings of different colors are coated on the working faces at the two sides of the medicine line slot.
 8. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that semiconductor light emitting diodes and semiconductor laser diodes with single color of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue or purple can be selected as the light emitting diodes on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; moreover, color-adjustable semiconductor light emitting diodes with multiple colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple can also be selected.
 9. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that a noodle-shaped 1-5 mm medicine line prepared and twisted by adding a blender into a special heavy medicine liquid for moxibustion treatment can be adopted as the medicine line squeezed in the medicine line slot; or, a medicine line formed by dipping a cotton line with a diameter of 1-5 mm into the special heavy medicine liquid for moxibustion treatment can be adopted as the medicine line.
 10. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the medicine line slot on the same diameter of the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate is an S-shaped or reversed S-shaped semi-circular arc with a radius of curvature between one fifth and three fourths of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the circle center of the medicine line slot is respectively overlapped with installation centers of the two light emitting diodes, and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 11. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the central point of the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate, the central point of the medicine line slot and the central point of the wire connecting the two light emitting diodes are overlapped; and the overlapping error thereof is less than one fifth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 12. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the light emitting tubes on the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate are symmetrically distributed and installed on the same diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; the distance between the two light emitting diodes is more than one fourth of the diameter of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; and the locating error of installation points of the two light emitting tubes is less than one fifth of the working face of the moxibustion head substrate.
 13. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the working face of the moxibustion head substrate is one of three following structures; wherein a structure of the working face of a heat, light and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode and a medicine line slot are arranged on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and a heating element is installed in the moxibustion head substrate; a structure of the working face of a light and medicine substrate is that two light emitting diodes and a medicine line slot are installed on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate, and a heating element is not installed inside the moxibustion head substrate; and a structure of the working face of a heat and medicine substrate is that a light emitting diode is not installed on the original round light emitting diode installation hole position on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate and only two colored circle impresses higher than the working face of the moxibustion head substrate by no more than 5 mm and the medicine line slot are arranged; moreover, a heating element is arranged in the moxibustion head substrate.
 14. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that the depth of the medicine line slot on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate is between 0 and 5.0 mm and the width of the medicine line slot on the working face of the round moxibustion head substrate is between 0.1 and 5.0 mm; a paint coating is coated at the bottom of the slot; and two coatings of different colors are coated on the working faces at the two sides of the medicine line slot.
 15. The medical photothermal moxibustion instrument according to claim 2, characterized in that semiconductor light emitting diodes and semiconductor laser diodes with single color of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue or purple can be selected as the light emitting diodes on the working face of the moxibustion head substrate; moreover, color-adjustable semiconductor light emitting diodes with multiple colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple can also be selected. 